Looking good! Are you in NE Georgia or Metro Atlanta? I can't imagine up in the mountains you are still waiting on your first frost?

gtnike, I am about 30 miles N.E. of Atlanta. We sometimes get weird weather patterns here. South of Atlanta had already gotten a frost a week ago. Came close here. But hit 30 Friday morning and frosty.

Planted 40 pots Friday and Saturday. What a PITA. I think dormant seeding would be easier. Had to fill in the holes the chickweed made and repair wabbit damage.

Used the last of my shampoo soil conditioner I had stocked. Going with the BLSC in the spring. I am seeing one drawback to softer soil. My lawn tracker tends to slip on the slopes more. I have to watch the angles I mow on the hills more now than before.

Dropped Lesco 50-0-0 at just under 1 lb n/k today and watered it in. Hope to add Moss Out next weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

My brother lives in Dacula, so round about the same area as you. My mom who lives in Peachtree City told me it was almost 80 today. It was upper 60's here and I thought that was warm!

DAY 66

Dropped 40lb's of Moss Out today. Man I hope it helps with the Tenacity whitening. My lawn looks like a white Christmas. Expecting cold weather to start moving in this weeks. Guess I need to start watching soil temp's and time my winterizer. Tenacity took out the weeds. I hope whatever gaps remain this winter fill in in the spring.

Frontyard. Man is it white.



This is some of the whitening. Some area's are worse.

DAY 83

I guess it is time to bring this renovation to a close.

I would like to thank everyone here at Bestlawn for helping me make it through this. Thanks for you encouragement and for answering my newbie questions. Without your help I would never have been able to have the great looking (and weedless) lawn I have now...THANKS!

Just when you thought it was safe to winterize. I was watching the soil temp's here drop to the mid 40's. Mowed and dropped Vigoro 29-0-4 on Sunday and Bondie Iron Sulfate on Monday. Today it hit 70 and the lawn looks like it needs mowed again. Just checked the 4" soil temp's and they have jumped up over 50. Oh what the heck...grow baby grow.

Here is a recap of the weed farm I had to start with.



And what it looks like today.

Looks very nice. Good luck next year.

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BuckeyeChuck wrote:Looks great I am curious how the KBG will perform in the GA heat summer of 2012? Do you think it will require copious amounts of water?

The heat I think it will withstand. It's the direct summer sun that I worry about. With 3 trees across the front yard and a stand of trees between myself and my neighbor, that gives the lawn "rolling" shade throughout the day. But there is a strip that runs along the street that gets the all afternoon sun that may take a beating.That's the section I worry about.

Water. That's the $64,000 question. We average 50" of rainfall a year here. I have seen as little as 38" and as much as 70"+. I do have an in-ground sprinkler system so that helps. My water bill is in Mother Natures hands this coming summer.

There is a section of the backyard, 50' x 60', that's gets 7+ hours of direct sunshine durning the summer months. It is usually fried by fall. I am hoping that what I have learned here at Bestlawn University will help me keep the fescue back there alive this year.

The entire yard was fescue to begin with. I just decided to renovate the front yard first since I was so sick of looking at it.

I am starting to get comments from the neighbors about how nice it looks now. Compared to the "what the heck did he do to his yard" look I was getting a couple of months ago.